LiveSwitch is a powerful media server option for building live video applications based on the WebRTC standard. Our team wanted to see how easy it would be to replace the commercial media server we currently use in our SimplyDoc Telehealth Starter Kit with the LiveSwitch Cloud offering. Let’s see how it went!
There are a variety of ways you can use traditional telephony in your WebRTC video app, as well as different architectures you can choose to support it from commercial to open source. Let’s explore the reasons you might want to integrate a dial-in or dial-out capability into your WebRTC video or audio application and look at a sample architecture.
There are many great open source WebRTC media servers out there. But Janus’ great performance, small footprint, and active open source repository and community make it a popular choice for developers looking to use the latest supported WebRTC functionalities. Alberto Gonzalez takes Janus out for a spin to build a test video conference app.
WebRTC is undoubtedly an in demand technology, and the record-breaking attendance for Kranky Geek’s 2020 WebRTC conference indicates how it has grown. And though online, it was equally exciting as any previous year with excellent organization, topics, and quality. Talks covered scaling video calls, privacy, new APIs, WebRTC Next Version (NV), and a great panel with lead engineers from the major browsers. Our Senior WebRTC Engineer, Alberto Gonzalez, breaks it down for us.
